thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
I was browsing Europe on the web and ran across this nifty building. Do you know what that is? It is the Marbach Museum of Modern Literature, in Germany, part of the Deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach. Built by David Chipperfield Architects, it is stated: The museum is located in Marbach’s scenic park, on top of a rock plateau [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
A Le Corbusier villa, David Chipperfield coffee cups, 1931 Citroën 2CV... in writing, the best works of design are just names and numbers. But assemble the objects in a room, and allow people to walk around them, and their timeless resonance can be felt immediately.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Hangzhou (China), Aug.30 (ANI): A British architect has completed the Liangzhu Culture Museum in east China’’s Zhejiang Province and it will open to the public from October 1. The museum will contain relics of ancient villages, nobles” tombs with exquisite jade burial artifacts, imperial graveyards, sacrificial altars and large-scale mountain structures in Liangzhu Town marks [...]
Future Designs (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A new architectural wonder is coming up in the Caribbean, with one of the best architects coming together to set up what can be said a destination to look for. In the Turks & Caicos archipelago, a 560 acre island is being developed which has about 124 villas and 154 residences in the cradle of [...]
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Dellis Cay is a luxury resort on an island in the Turks & Caicos archipielago, with works from Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, among others.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Antony Gormley and David Chipperfield team up for an art and architecture exhibition
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Let’s be real - these images of David Chipperfield’s competition winning design for a new gateway building at HEC School of Management in Paris are pretty vague. That being said, I also thought that they were pretty feckin’ sick - and couldn’t help sharing them. Here’s some info on the project: HEC was founded in 1881 and is a business school affiliated to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry....
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Yesterday I made an oblique reference to the quality of the University of Iowa Museum of Art's collection. Check out highlights from the museum's post-1900 European and American art or print collections. This is Jackson Pollock's 1943 Mural. In Davenport, Iowa, the new, David Chipperfield-designed Figge Art Museum has water on its doorstep. [ via ] PBS' NewsHour says that the UIMA collection has been...
Eastcliff Matters (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Building Design - The Architects Website reports Snøhetta slams Kent bid for Turner costs 16 May 2008 Norwegian practice Snøhetta has hit back at Kent County Council after the local authority began legal proceedings against the practice and its partner Stephen Spence over the duo’s aborted Turner Contemporary gallery scheme in Margate. The council said last week that it wished to retrieve costs associated...
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p9gA3oe4Hk Watch 9th dan status architect David Chipperfield speaking with Charlie Rose . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQ8O3lkrUk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_36EvsNYQ More David Chipperfield on ArchitectureMNP: David Chipperfield : Winning the Sterling Prize? photo du jour 17.08.2007 Sterling Prize Winner 2007 :: Video Sundays , or VS, is a weekly feature here...
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
While Southwark Council was voting to axe the Livesey Museum on Wednesday evening in order to save £146,000, Thanet District Council was granting planning permission for the new Turner Contemporary gallery to be built in Margate, Kent, at a cost of £17.5m. It seems there is always money for prestige projects. Here's a model of the proposed gallery, designed by architect David Chipperfield. Ships' sails...
ClickPress (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
Overseas property portal www.HomesGoFast.com reports a new trend in the types of homes that are now available to the international real estate buyer. Property developers are now employing the services of celebrity architects to appeal to the discerning luxury home buyers.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/12/2007
Why are so many of our world-class architects working elsewhere, asks Ellis Woodman.
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
I’m fresh from a five-year stint living in Des Moines, Iowa, so needless to say, my attention was piqued by a recent travel article in the New York Times extolling the capital city's new downtown boom, just in time for...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
Building work starts on a new art gallery which will feature the work of sculptor Barbara Hepworth.
